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Guatemala · Puerto Quetzal
Most China boxes for Guatemala should be planned for Puerto Quetzal. Santo Tomás de Castilla is the Caribbean door, and it is a different voyage. The advantage is not a second ocean. It is arriving on the coast where your customer already clears.
Pacific highlands and the capital’s Pacific logistics point to Quetzal. A Caribbean corridor points to Santo Tomás.
M1 or N1 on the China conformity certificate, in the same words as the SAT heading.
Do not switch ports after the proforma. A battery car moves as Class 9.
The parts quote after release uses the VIN on the declaration.
The catalog follows the VIN on the SAT declaration. A car cleared in Quetzal and a car cleared in Santo Tomás are not two catalogs if the VIN is the same, and they are not the same catalog as a lookalike from another country.
Open CarPartsCertified dealers open a China-side session on units from this desk. Beta. It reads the car. It does not replace your agent.
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Guatemala has a Pacific port and a Caribbean port, and importers already know which one their truckers use. A China purchase is cheaper to live with when the first discharge is that port, not when the car is barged across the country because the booking was made for the other coast. Puerto Quetzal is the discharge we plan. Santo Tomás de Castilla is right only when the file already lives there.
The question before the deposit is who files with SAT, and whether the car is a passenger car or a light goods vehicle. That choice changes the heading. It does not get repaired by a relabel at the warehouse. We do not print a duty percent over a line we have not opened with your agent.
Invoice, packing list and bill of lading. The conformity certificate states the category under GB/T 15089-2016, M1 or N1. The environmental information sheet identifies the emissions of that VIN. The consistency certificate records the approved type: dimensions, mass, powertrain. Your agent’s declaration has to describe that same car. We build the China set and we review it with the agent before a container number exists. We do not file the SAT declaration. After the advance payment the factory issues exactly these three papers. The China compulsory product certificate and the consistency certificate are the same paper, not a fourth file. These China papers do not replace the local homologation and they are not a duty rate.
CarParts prices lamps, clips, cooling parts and modules against the declared VIN. CarLive is the China-network session for certified dealers on cars bought through this desk, including when a local portal rejects the export ECU. Beta. It does not change the assessment. This desk sells to importers and workshops, not to a private buyer of one car.
B2B orientation. SAT practice and the heading change. Not Guatemalan legal advice. Your agent files the declaration.
